Photography didn’t kill painting, as some people feared. A painting can be more accurate than a photo, in some ways.
I think the same will be true of programming and other skills.
I think the same will be true of programming and other skills.
I really doubt we’ll have systems that come up with the Apple folding phone’s “blurry image of the outside screen as you open that snaps into focus as you finish opening it” feature, at least for a very long time. The very training system of these foundation models works against it.
We are currently at the point equivalent to when photography was just appearing (so to speak)
As for today, we are discussing distinct means of producing the same thing: software. Painting remains because photography was at most displacing a subset of the field. Generative AI writing software may be displacing an entire profession.